Google's Envy - Microsoft's Pride

Microsoft is befriending Open [all is fair in love and war]

1. Outercurve is the torch bearer of the new open MS
2. Play fair and square with competing/upcoming tech on Azure - Hadoop , Linux , Java , PHP , NodeJS...
3. Advocate of DNT and other pro-consumer privacy policies
4. Contribute to and get leverage from FOSS [linux, webmatrix, mvc, razor, jquery, orchard...]
5. Participate in Google Summer of Code
6. OData

Microsoft is Kool

1. XBox
2. Kinect
3. Smart Glass
4. Kinect Glasses
5. Metro
6. Surface
7. Bing
8. Geeky stuff: Nuget , Powershell , MVC , Razor
9. Strong vibrant socialized community in MSDN, Stackoverflow, Codeplex
10. on{X}
11. Creates apps for Android and IOS
12. Mayhem

Microsoft is on par with respect to Web stuff

1. Html and Web standards are no longer foster children or an after thought. They have equal status to biological children such as Silverlight
2. IE 10 is on par [99.999%] to chrome, firefox, etc with respect to web standards
3. ASP.net has native support for; and encourages trendy kool kids of javascript world such as modernizr, jquery, etc
4. ASP.net now sees its RESTful architectures [web-api] as first class citizens